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Keansburg police chief got 11 weeks vacation, other cops, employees got 'excessive' payouts
Police chief got 11 weeks vacation, other cops, employees got ‘excessive’ payouts, audit saysKeansburg, a small, blue-collar Monmouth County town on Raritan Bay, came under sharp criticism by the state comptroller Wednesday for paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars in “excessive benefits” to its employees.
Those benefits included 11 weeks of vacation time to a former police chief, who was not named in the report.
Some employees were provided with compensatory time that could be sold back, while the borough paid out a total of $451,000 in so-called longevity payments in 2017 and 2018 — essentially a yearly bonus for length of service — the comptroller found in its 20-page audit.
Keansburg, a struggling town known mostly for its amusement park, also improperly paid $95,000 to two employees for unused vacation and sick days in 2017 and 2018.
Read more: https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2021/05/police-chief-got-11-weeks-vacation-other-cops-employees-got-excessive-payouts-audit-says.html